This low rise is a salt dome — the only high ground for miles, pushed up by the same buried Jurassic salt that traps oil along this coast — and the few acres of oak woodland growing on it are internationally famous among birders. Songbirds migrating north in spring fly the Gulf of Mexico nonstop, some 600 miles over open water, and when a north wind meets them at the coast they come down exhausted in the first trees they can reach. On the right April morning those trees can hold thousands of warblers, tanagers and orioles at once.
Getting there
29.5700, -94.3930
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